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Teaching Headache Management to Medicine Residents
Author(s) -
Kumar Kusum L.,
Joos Sandra K.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1996.3607446.x
Subject(s) - etiology , observational study , medicine , test (biology) , family medicine , outpatient clinic , alternative medicine , physical therapy , emergency medicine , pathology , paleontology , biology
Background.—To evaluate the effect of teaching headache management to PG‐1 medicine residents. Design.—Observational study using prerotation and postrotation ratings by residents of improvement in their knowledge of etiology, diagnosis, appropriate use of narcotics, and treatment of headache. Setting.—Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic. Participants.—Twenty‐two medicine residents. Measurements and Results.—There was small but significant improvement in the total knowledge score ( P =.03) and in areas of etiology of headache ( P =.02) and appropriate use of narcotics ( P =.001). Conclusion.—We found there were substantial increases in residents’ subjective levels of understanding, history‐talking and in the diagnosis and treatment of headache ( P <.0001) in contrast to the objective knowledge test.